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THE UNION TIMES PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY ... BY THE.... UNION TIMES COMPANY BACHELOR STREET, OPPOSITE POST OFFICE. BELL PHONE NO. 1. L. M. RICK, EI>IT??K >. E. P.i i.NKY, - - An?h'i \tk Ei?rn?it Registered at tin* Postotliee in Union S. C. as second class mail matter. 81'BSC III HTIOX HATES: One year - $1.60 Six months .... .50 Three months ... .25 A DVKUTISK MKNTH : One square, first insertion - $1.00 Every subsequent insertion - .50 Contracts for three months or longer will he made at reduced rates. Locals inserted at X 1-3 cents a line. Rejected manuscript will not be returned. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be charged for at half rates. UNION, S. C., SKPT. >, IWX3. l'lease -omeliody get up another Thaw, Hartje, or foul murder case for our carrion-loving newspapers. They are famishing for food, and their f?*?d is tin- dirtiest dirt. Two shipments of empty jugs have l?ecn made from I'nion since the dispensary was voted out. That does not spell so much, when we consider the shipments 1 n?th in and out under the dispensary regime. The first primary is over; the people have sjx>ken. Hut it was merely a < tearing of the public throat, they speak again next Tuesday. Will it he "graft" or*4honesty?" Senator 1111111:111, ??t spoilth ( arolina, a iiu-mlnr of tin- naval commission, could ii'?t make the naval review at Oy>t< r Ray last Monday, because lu* is not on speaking terms witli the President. The review wa.- made without him. A fi'\v days ago Mayor Roddey, of Rock Hill, refused to fine a po<?r lxuiro caught gambling. stating as 111s reason that until the bucket . diop license was revoked in the city, lie would not fine any poor negro with fifteen cents in his pocket, while the rich gamblers were allowed to carry on the same business unmolested. After a hard fight in the council the license for bucket shop- was revoked. Congratulation-,Mayor Koddey and Rock Hill'. Col. John Temple Craves, editor of the Atlanta Ceorgian, sounds the key note to the solution of the lynching question. In a number of strong editorials he has pointed out that the salvation of the negro rests with the negro himself. And without a doubt this is true. The Southern white nun are doing their part for the negro now, helping edit -ate him, fostering his schools and churches, furnishing employment at a good wage for all of them, hoth men and women, and unless the negro tloes his part it is all to no avail. The negro preachers, editors and teachers must do their part. So long as tney run at the lynchers and do not condemn the crime that causes it, they need expect nothing hut lynehings. It is their duty, and if they fai 1 to do it they just as well exjx'et the natural consequence. OUR ABOMINABLE R. R. SERVICE. The lateness of all trains passing through l'nion and the poor accomodations etc., have ahout worn to a frazzle the patience of the I'nion jHiople. Our trains are considered h.v the authorities as mere conveniences for the longer lines in Spartanburg and Columbia; they are made to wait on those trains, never regarding tin- interests of tie patrons along this line. It is high time the people of I'nion raised their voices demanding their rights and the service due them. Once before, a protest was made to the commission u id for a while the trains were well on time, but soon the old condition returned. The business of the state railroad commission is to see to this, but its attention needs to he directed thereto. Maj. Jno. II. Karle, we want you to look into this matti r and see that I'nion gets what is due her. - i TIMES JOB PRINT. During the past five months of ;Thk Timks' existence under the I present management, there lias heen reiuarkahle and almost phenomenal growth in every department. Hut greatest of all has heen the building up of the job printing business. Very little announcement of the new Equipments, both presses and materials, was made, hut business men always have their eyes open and they have seen our work. The consequence is that now our job print is always crowded with work, i Hut we are receiving every day new goods, new ami additional maehin-, cry, so that we may better serve the I patrons of this department. This j notice is no boast, hut an acknowl: edgeinent of your confidence, and | thanks for your patronage. Wej are now in position to handle almost any kind of work and it is executed promptly and with less cost than elsewhere. Our equipments' and amount of work justify us in making such small prices. WPL6M\S \OR NEGROES. Last week in Atlanta, at a meet-' ing of negroes to discuss the Initterment of this race, Deal Jackson, a successful negro farmer of Albany, j(?a., eommande<l attention and in-J | terest when he spoke his views con| cerning education for his fellows, j In his peculiar dialect lie ridiculed 1 the college education and advocated farm education. He said: "They say a nigger can't work niggers," he said, "but 1 know bet- j iter. Come down yonder and 1 will show you where I have over a hundred on my plantation, and I don't have no trouble in getting help. I'se got lots of young niggers worki ing for me that will soon be plowing for dcmselves.'' Hi' continued: You may tell me 'bout the 'ploomers" (he evidently meant diplomas) what you gits at Morris Brown and Tuskt gee and all these other colleges, hut it* you wants to see a good i nigger you come down and see some what got 'ploomers' from my farm." i j Incidentally it might be mentioned that for the last ten years Jackson ' j has regularly produced the lirst bale j of cotton t.? l-ifl marketed in Dough- i | erty county, and it usually brings ! him about twice the market value." Is this negro right? Does a col- ; i lege education unfit negroes for their real place an<l make a failure of them for the place they see k to occupy? It is an open question. BRYAN AND THE PARTY. ; Although the election of Rresij dent is two years off, the whole country is in a stir over the |>ossible j nominees. The Republican party seems yet without a leader since the: third term for Roosevelt is consid- j I ered impossible. William Jennings Bryan, of Nebraska, twice the nominee of the 1 Democrats, has again come forward i | and seems to be the leader of his, ; party. J Whether or not he represents the sentiment of the party is a ques-j tion, since his Madison Square Gar- j den speeeh last Friday night. All his beliefs, except one, seem to meet j I with favor by the other prominent j | members of the party. Govern-j j ment ownership of the trunk lines and state control of the smaller lines is the wedge that has split the 1 party. Bryan advocates this docj trine and is persistent in it, al- j , though he declared later that he was t | expressing his private opinions only. Notwithstanding this division, Bryan stands today, the greatest figure in the ranks of Democracy. He lends, and he leads with not merely his great conception ofpo-: , litieal, economic and social needs, hut with his great personality also. ! He is a magnetic man and speaker, j Without question he stands today as the foremost Democrat in America. What two years may bring! forth is iin|>ossihle fo tell. TOO MUCH LEGISLATION. Judge Parker's address a few days ago, in which lie charges too much legislation, too many laws, is preg- i i nant with truth. This multiplicity of statutes almost necessitates the non-enforcement of many; and I permits so much wrangling, varied interpretation and in consequence retardation of justice. It is next | the impossible for lawyers to keep | IQIJEEN QIAL I Mutual Dry Go6d I announce with pit B their readiness to] I their New Fall Fa: ra :? a 44 A AH a 44 *1 thoroughly informed on all the i numerous acts of congress and the j legislatures. There must be a reason for this ! excess in the product of our legislative mills. We beg to offer two causes; viz. that our legislators go to Columbia, unversed in the already existing laws, and, being desirous of making themselves heard and felt in the halls of the assembly, draw up and introduce some new law or laws. Many of these laws overlap and often conflict: hence, the non-enforcement and legal conflict. And second, because the term of each legislator is so shortlived. The ever varying mind of the people calls a man back home and sends ai. >thcr in his place. This never" ceasing change in the J personnelle of the legislature inca-| pacitates or at least hinders it in the wise and useful passage of laws that are necessary, and the killing, of conflicting and unnecessary bills, i T.. ?t... i? .... i * ill uit ir^idiiituii; 10 ini;itly a training for real service. The reason the Charleston delegation has so much influence and power in the house, is that they are allowed long ' terms of olliee; and yet the power to recall these ollicers is a great blessing and safeguard. It is the abuse of this power that causa the trouble. THE PENALTY OP REMORSE. A young man lies in the county jail in this city charged with murder. Two days ago he was a free man, at liberty to come and go as he pleased, to mingle with his friends and enjoy tin- happiness of his home made bright by the society of bis young wife, lie was one of the firemen of this city and doubtless tell the responsibility placed on him to care for the property of the citizens and with his fellows to conquer the fire fiend, lbhad, so far as appears, little to worry over, nothing to cause sorrow. Now lie is the most unhappy creature in the county. He has taken the life of a fellow man ami that man his sister's husband. The! uncertainty of tin- law's penalty and j the ordeal of a public trial and the months of dread and contemplation j to precede- it would ho a burden al- j most too great p, j)C |>orne; hut I thoro t* yet a greater penalty, a more severe and lasting punishment! which has nlnady begun. Remorse has laid its relentless hand on this young man and with his <lying breath, should he live to be a hundred years old, he will feel its pitiless lashings. Regret is the saddest thought in human experi-j ence, the most hopeless and gnawing and cruel because it cannot be remedied and won't l>e forgotten. Oh, if I could but recall that deed! are words that will burn themselves into this young man's thoughts with hourly and lifelong iteration. Probably he did not intend to kill his victim. lie says he aimed at his legs, lint lie hit him in the j abdomen and'kilied him. It is for) the courts and the jury to deter-1 mine the nature of the crime, if any, j and its punishment, and we have no wish to interfere either for or against him. The punishment already referred to outside of that inflicted by the law is terrible enough and it is that which makes this a sad case. The lesson taught by this unfortunate tragedy is the dangers that lie in a quick temper and a deadly weapon. They cause acts that cannot be recalled and establish regrets that are as poignant as the knife and as enduring as life. A hasty deed brings deliberate repentance. tffiu- inniiv nf v/.nno !i. : . .......j ... ..... J./.HI6 m. II in mc I face of the terrible consequences brought to this man by a rash act, due to the unlawful jsisscssion and use of a pistol, will still go about armed with deadly weapons ready to resent instantly and with consequences that can never he escapexl or forgotten real or fancied injuries that will ever afterwards appear insignificant in comparison with the suffering brought al>out by a homicide!?Spartanburg Journal. Alone with his thoughts! and J those thoughts spring from the mind haunted by the spirit of bis victim. Day in and day out, and all through the night, the departed ! spirit of the murdered man hovers around and in tones clear and un-1 mistakuble accuses the wretched man. His dreams are freighted with terror: his thoughts haunt hiiu. | Murder reaps a terrible punishment. The penalty of the law is not all?the accusations of one's own mind are the worst to he reckoned with. Memory is 0110 of man's greatest faculties. It is awful. It constitutes a great part of that which will make for him heaven or hell. fc,. H in yuwui yuaiiu . 1 ....ONE H| No women shoes ever |j| have earned such a re |j| have Queen Quality. HI home" the first time; t H where, but it does not | i ANOTHf I II < 1 :i i B Presentment of Grand Jury? Fall Term 1906. S To His Honor Chas. (i. Dant/lor, Presiding Judge. j SjL We, the (irand Jurors of Union' JO County, hog to make this our final , ^, report: We have carefully exam-j T" ined and passed upon all hills <* handed us hy the Solicitor, and .? a have made presentment on each ac- Jj L cording as we thought the evidence J 1 warranted. W We have hy committee visited T L the Treasurer's office and find his1 I lx)oks neatly and well kept and we1 B are satisfied they are correct. We, visited the Auditor's ofliee and found his Isioks neat and in good j condidition. ' T? We visited the County Supervis-; -Sii or's ofliee and we gave it a thorough ?g examination. We find his books in _Sj a good shape, and in such order that; ^ any one could understand the same, gj We find that the new macadam "S1 road has cost the county exclusive ? ? of the machinery, five thousand, ?S| p . three hundred and forty nine dol- l|0t V(] lars ($5,849.00.) This hcing at * the 'ate of three thousand dollars VAJJf* per mile. Owing to the fact that "if? J "UI tiiere was some heavy grading, and one of the worst roads in the covin- j?| OilOv* ly, ana taking into consideration i 3| the excessive heavy rains during C the year, we consider this amount 1 very cheap. tf We had some complaint made to "gi vflll td us that there \ycre certain irregular- .? | ities existing in this ollice. We * L made a thorough examination of JP THF^F the vouchers and find the Supervis- ^ ? IllnJii or absolutely correct and the report T 1 ===== false. We hy committee visited "T" a j the Sheriff's, Probate Judge's, .fig Q| Clerk's and School Coniniission of- *L (ices and we commend them all for T flip fip< their neat and well kept l>ooks in j;!1 IIIC UC? their offices. We visited the jail, T* j chain gany and county parish. All > to see these institutions are in the hands 9 = of comix: tent men and are well kept ?L and managed. 1 I nere wore given the names of several men and women living in T* fornication, and witnesses thereto. WW It is deemed host by the editor, to WW omit this in publishing.] I *Jk We extend to IIis Honor, also to S | ^1 fa-Solicitor, and other officers of i JIMn^ the court our thanks for their coun- Tf sel and courtesies shown us during the term. ?I Respectfully submitted, X| ('. C. Sartor, _ Fore"""1- |, 49 East SubscrilK* for The Times. * ^ITTY? jjl to asure j $k I [show jJMk-. I shions I Shoes. IstlPP^ if POiNTZ 1 # known to Americans ||| put at ion for comfort as |j| rhe foot feels "right at ||| he shoe touches every- p| pinch. ||| :R POINT.... I least in favor of these ||| ey cost only $3.00, $3.50, ||| d woman's shoe at any ||| lore style, more comfort than QUEEN QUALITY, g Goods Co., I iY, Manager, 11 MEET ME AT HAILE'S SHOE STORE. ? MET 111 IAILE ffi mr west foot into a Haile Shoe, !| east foot into another Haile !| and you'll "compass" all the If style and reliability your feet !| rry. *)? ' !| ADC Tlir n i I/O ran wnn aae hie uai3 rUK NNfc SHOES. ,1 ^ ur store is the place to procure >1 st shoes that are made. Ask!I our shoes for Young Men. | ? ? rhe Store that Shoes the People. !! 'I lite bhoe lo., I "l The Leading Shoe House. 'I Main Street Union, South Carolina \ \